Richard tweeted apologetically that this was not what was happening. He kept joking about Larry throughout the summer, even tweeting at Mike Pence to ask if he thought Larry was real. But around that time, other One Direction fans started writing to him on Twitter to explain the full drama of the conspiracy theory. “I was like, Oh, well, this has gotten darker, or maybe it was always darker than I thought,” he said. “Basically, I disavowed the whole thing and was like, I really thought this was a joke. I didn’t know how serious it was.” The Larries turned on him immediately, calling him
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